Last I checked, The Ohio State University was in the B1G.

Over the past 5 years the SEC has seen 12 different schools play in bowl games. 4 different SEC schools have won 7 National Championships since 2006. It has been over a decade since the B1G won one. The only non-SEC school to win a NC since 2006 was Florida State, and they are located in the middle of SEC country in West Florida. They recruit the same players as SEC schools like Florida, Auburn, Alabama, and Georgia. They also had to beat an SEC school, Auburn, in the final 13 seconds to win it last year.

Ohio is furnishing Ohio State with tons of talent and they are good, but other than MSU and maybe Wisconsin, the rest of the B1G has fallen far behind the SEC and PAC 12 in talent. Those conferences simply have more good players top to bottom. The biggest problem with the SEC this year is the best teams are located in the Western Division with all 7 teams having a chance of playing in a bowl, and 6 of them have been ranked in the Top 25 this year. They are now beating up each other, which means they may end the year with a bunch of 9-3 and 10-2 teams rather than a couple of 11-1 Top 4 teams. The Eastern Division is down with the exception of Georgia, but its possible that side of the conference could still land 5 teams in bowl games.

Finally, looking at last years NFL draft, the SEC was again the leader with the most players drafted.

in terms of overall talent. Wisconsin really hasn't been all that successful while the rest of the conference saw more teams get better. You notice Nebraska, (before this season), Michigan, sometimes Penn State, and lately Minnesota & Northwestern hanging around much later in the season. Rutgers is also off to a hot start.

Recent draft results or bowl games probably won't show this but it will in the very near future. I don't worry about which conference outranks who and pay more attention to good teams in any conference but the Big 10 has gotten a lot better top to bottom.

Multiple losses to MAC schools, Ohio State losing to an average at best Va Tech at home, Nebraska needing a miracle to beat a lowly FCS team, and 16 or 17 OOC losses, most to less than impressive competition, sure doesn't show any signs of improvement to the college football world.

Nebraska smashed a FBS team the week before while McNeese State rates at 88 in rankings that include both FBS and FCS while that Florida Atlantic team hovers around 125.

One of those MAC losses was Indiana to Bowling Green and that same Indiana team beat Missouri which isn't a team I included in overall Big 10 improvement. Northern Illinois has had a very good football in recent years (this is why I don't get obsessed w/ conferences and focus on the quality of teams) but overall I'm not seeing anything major. Take a look at Minnesota for instance. Michigan State had the lead on the road against Oregon for most of the game until the comeback and blowing it wide open (ASU and UCLA game was closer than the final score suggested as well). But you can't get locked into single game results as determining who is better (especially across conferences) as variables & other factors such as having no-preseason to work out the early kinks as well as including the fact the better team doesn't always win.

Basically I was disputing Ohio State, Michigan State, and Wisconsin as the only teams in the Big 10 when there are more and more teams getting better and hanging around and teams like Northwestern & Penn State who have up & down years.

Then the stork makes a visit and sometimes that baby grows up to be a football player!

Is that the correct answer?

Just like anyone else.

I doubt there are many teams (if any) that have much homegrown talent, though. I think players take games (and the surrounding community) a little more seriously when they play for their hometown team.